Curriculum Vitae Mark Washeim
2016-2022: https://netzpolitik.org, (Berlin, Germany) Roles: Programmer und Systemadministrator. Netzpolitik.org was a project of newthinking.de of which I was also a founder
2006-2016: newthinking.de, https://re-publica.com, netzpolitik.org (Berlin, Deutschland) Roles: Owner, Technical Director, Programmer newthinking itself is defunct https://archiv.newthinking.de Our projects included the founding of the conferences re-publica, https://berlinbuzzwords.de and https://foss-backstage.de
2002-2005: Freelance software development, media art work and literary translation.
1998 - 2001: Largemedium, (Stockholm, Schweden, daughter of Critical Mass Inc.) Roles: Tech Lead, Software Architect Primary client: Saab Automobile
1996 - 2001: Critical Mass Inc., https://www.criticalmass.com (Calgary, Canada) Roles: Founder, VP Technical, Software Architect, Programmer Clients included: Mercedes-Benz USA, Nike, NASA, Proctor and Gamble, Dell
1994 - 1996: Canada Connect Corporation (Calgary, Canada) Roles: Webmaster, http://www.canuck.com (defunct)
1991 - 1995: Dandelion Magazine Society (Calgary, Canada) Roles: Business manager and producer of Dandelion and blue buffalo magazines. Also occupied doing freelance Desktop Publishing in this same period.
1986 - 1991: University of Calgary - BA, Major in Psychology, Minor in History 1985, Matriculation with honours, Fairview Highschool, Fairview, Alberta, Canada
German and English, fluent. School French basics.
interactive digital video and music
Gaps in Berlin
Berlin, 2003, for Ina Wudtke, and NBK, Kunstbank Berlin
Description: DVD & Book. Collaboration on the production of a DVD containing photographs of Jewish properties once seized by the Nazi state in the 1930s.
Roles: Editing, Translation, Animation, DVD production
Lunalounge
Berlin, 2002, 2006
Description: live film performance. And antidote to the music video. Sampled film, flee-market super 8 footage, film music clichés, etc are performed into short films. Music is largely arranged in advance. Video is composed on a laptop computer using software of my own design. Appearances include the Alternativa Festival in Praha, Czech Republic, and a residency at Tacheles EV, Berlin.
Roles: Script writing and dramaturgy. Playing of video samplers. Production of interactive CD-ROM.
Participants: Dave Allen, bass, Matthew Cottam, violin + keyboards, Bob King synthesis + sampling, Daniel Plashues, guitars + fx, Lou Widera, drums
Emergency Exit
Berlin, 2002, 2006
Description: improvisational audio-visual electro-aucoustics. Three performers, all visual artists and musicians, improvise punk-tek-jazz eventually yielding noise. Video is improvised at the same time as sound is produced. Appearances include The Illuseum Amsterdam, MS Stubnitz, Rostock
Recordings: Yes, we are. 2003
Roles: Programming and playing audio-visual samplers, synthesisers.
Participants: Dr. Nexus, machines, Trodza, guitars and machines
They Say
I.M. Eimer, Berlin, 2001
Description: Audio-visual sampler performance. They say is a video performance which re-presents found news media footage from the civil-war and genocide in Rwanda, 1994.
Roles: research, writing, programming and playing of audio-visual samplers
A Beautiful War Dance
Berlin, New York, 2001, for Ina Wudtke
Description: an audio-visual poem. DVD in production for acquisition, 2004.
Roles: animation and programming
The Other World of the Outer World
New Gallery, Calgary, Canada, 1996 -
Description: The Other World of the Outer World is an interactive video which engages the viewer/participant in a dialog about the boundaries between the so-called natural world and the ‘man-made’ world. The work presents the common symbiosis of things we often refer to as ‘natural’ or ‘man-made’ using found texts, rotoscoped video, recorded sound and so on. The viewer/participant manipulates ‘scenes’, constructing hybrid world views with a computer.
Roles: writing, animation, sound design, programming
Various films with Vendetta (script, camera, edit)
Poetry, essays, reviews
In the Canadian periodical s: Fiddlehead, grain, Hippocampus, id est, Nexus Magazine, SansCrit, Secrets from the Orange Couch
Poetry Collection
The End of Light (1991, Provo Publishing)
Translations (from German)
Heiner Müller: The Poems, unpublished
Peter Handke: Unter Tränen fragend, unpublished
Hans Magnus Ensenzberger: Collected Poems, private
Karl Valentin: plays translated for the theatre company One Yellow Rabbit, Calgary, Canada.
Publisher
i.e. magazine: 1992 -1993
Founding and managing editor; editorial and production responsibilities entailed
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National Film Board of Canada
Promotional materials for “The Suburbanators”, a Gary Burns film.
National Film Board of Canada
Promotional materials for “The Dreams of the Night Cleaners”, a Leila Sujir film
University of Calgary, Nickle Arts Museum
Design of catalogue for “35 years and 15 minutes: Prints by John Kenneth Esler”
Calgary International Boys Choir
Design of the book “Wicked Little Angels”